The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 11Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1842 - Naval art and science |
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Admiralty Amoy anchor anchorage appears Argand burners arrived bank batteries bearing boat breeze British buoy Cape Capt Captain channel chart Chinese chronometer coast command Corran Point course crew daïri danger deck distance Dutch east eastward eight ENLARGED SERIES.-NO entrance fathoms feet gale guns half harbour hill inches island Isle Japanese King George Sound land latitude Lieut light lighthouse longitude Lord low water Mahé Majesty Majesty's Majesty's ship Malta Marines master Maulmain miles Nagasaki Nautical Naval navigation navy nearly Ningpo noon north-east north-west northward observations officers opperhoofd passage passed Phlegethon Plymouth port Portsmouth present quarter reef river rock round Royal Royal Marines sailed sand seamen ship shoal shore side soundings south-east south-west southward Spithead steam steamers tide vessel weather westward wind Woolwich yards Yedo
Popular passages
Page 249 - A larger quantity of water in casks or in tanks than is requisite for the consumption of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel.
Page 249 - ... at the place from which he cleared outwards, stating that a sufficient security had been given by the owners of such vessel that such extra quantity of casks or of other vessels should only be used for the reception of palm oil, or for other purposes of lawful commerce.
Page 249 - A boiler, or other cooking apparatus, of an unusual size, and larger, or capable of being made larger, than requisite for the use of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel; or more than one boiler, or other cooking apparatus, of the ordinary size.
Page 247 - African slave trade, contrary to the provisions of this treaty; and that such cruisers may detain, and send or carry away, such vessels, in order that they may be brought to trial in the manner hereinafter agreed upon.
Page 552 - which was the signal for him to draw near and make his obeisance. Accordingly he crawled on his hands and knees to a place showed him between the presents, ranged in due order on one side, and the place where the emperor sat on the other, and...
Page 250 - ... which she was captured, no compensation for losses, damages, or expenses consequent upon the detention of such vessel shall in any case be granted either to the master, the owner, or any other person interested in the equipment or in the lading, even though she should not be condemned by the Mixed Court of Justice.
Page 425 - Slavery is a local law, and, therefore, if a man wishes to preserve his slaves, let him attach them to him by affection, or make fast the bars of their prison, or rivet well their chains, for the instant they get beyond the limits where slavery is recognised by the local law, they have broken their chains, they have escaped from their prison, and are free.
Page 247 - In order more completely to accomplish the object of the present treaty, the high contracting parties agree...
Page 249 - Justice that at the time of her detention or capture the vessel was employed in a lawful undertaking, and that such of the different articles above specified...
Page 252 - ... and he shall deliver the same to the competent authorities, or to the persons who shall have been specially appointed for that purpose by the Government within whose territories such port or place shall be.